Bottle machine....

[XTC]

A pic of one of the bottle machines at my work. This one makes 420 beer bottles a minute. That's 302,400 in a 12 hour shift. 604,800 a day. jobs like this can run for a month or more. Thats a heap of beer bottles. So drink up, buy your beer (or wine) in glass and keep me employed

[Ixion]

Nice. I like good machinery

[XTC]

Nice. I like good machinery

So do I. Except some of our machinery aint that good and it's sometimes a constant struggle to keep producing good bottles. Hundreds of things that can go wrong when making a bottle..

[FlyingDutchMan]

Hell... what am I doing? it takes me 1/2 hour to bottle 30 crate bottles with home brew. That thing would do it in 4.3 seconds.

[Ixion]

Hell... what am I doing? it takes me 1/2 hour to bottle 30 crate bottles with home brew. That thing would do it in 4.3 seconds.

Nay, it makes the bottles, it doesn't fill them.

[Motu]

I guess I might know where you work? I lived,schooled and worked close by for a large portion of my life.Big machines like that with multiple tasks are boggling to look at and I'll watch something like that for hours trying to figure it out.

[Biff]

I can only imagine how bloody noisy that place is. Thanks the lord for ear defenders.

Great photos.

[XTC]

I guess I might know where you work? I lived,schooled and worked close by for a large portion of my life.Big machines like that with multiple tasks are boggling to look at and I'll watch something like that for hours trying to figure it out.

I still watch it for hours cause I'm paid to It took a while when I first started there to figure out every thing that was happening from god loading to finished bottle... Makes a big mess when it goes wrong.
Plant's been in penrose since 1923. Motu can you remeber it being built? :rofl

Biff - yes it is bloody noisy (mainly the sound of compressed air rishing through valves and cooling holes with the crash bash of metal parts banging together) we get supplied ear muffs (highest grade) and ear plugs, I wear both and it's bloody hot too. No getting cold in the winter for me. And 12hours a day sweating my arse off in summer. But the 4days on 4days off is cool. and extra shifts are double time.

[TwoSeven]

I've always wondered what goes thru the mind of the folks that design those types of machines.

I mean - how do they get the chocolate inside the M&M without breaking the candy outer ?

[Motu]

Yep,rode my pushbike to school past there for 3 years,even applied for a job there once,got shown around and didn't get it,phew! Worked down Cain rd too,the building has been part of the landscape for years - maybe the oldest one still with original occupant.The S bend over the bridge was a favorite for years and years,we would hit it at some good speeds late at night,had a car once I could go sideways up and sideways down in the wet,going south.Shame they changed it and put lights in.